The Weekly Horoscope

Week from 14 to 20 Aug 2017

Neptune has depicted a very idealistic image with Venus, and Venus is now opposed to Pluto, which confronts it with unpleasant facts. Mercury in Virgo is retrograde and will slowly escape the nebulous influence of Neptune in order to get a clear
perspective. This week begins with the Moon in realistic Taurus. We are gradually informed of what was blanked out during the “stunning” Aquarius Full Moon. Mercury has a lot to work through and to recalculate. As is often the case with grandiose
projects, in the end the costs get out of hand (Venus-Neptune-Pluto). Even mother nature must have suffered quietly. It will take a while before we can grasp the true costs. Meanwhile everyone is pretending that everything is just wonderful. Jupiter
in Libra paints a beautiful picture of the world and hides that we are heading into a total Solar Eclipse (on August 21st in Leo) – or, however, are taking advantage of this second chance!

Partnership / Love:

Venus and Mars are in very different signs (Cancer and Leo) and are demonstrating their respective strengths in very different ways. Partners must be very far-sighted and sincere in order to see what the other partner has to offer. When both are
allowed to be strong and respected by the other, there are no problems. But if you are only always concerned with yourself, you cannot dance with your partner, and you are not really living in a relationship.

This week begins with the Moon in Taurus, which draws your attention to your resources and your capacity to calculate. Mercury in Virgo has to recalculate and will take a lot of time to do so. Would you like to face up to the result, even if it should
come at the cost of your success? For that you need a particular courage, which you actually have thanks to Mars in Leo. This does not diminish your achievements, on the contrary. Saturn desires sustainability in everything you do. Your true
pioneering work could lie in the fulfillment of this requirement for sustainability. A quick success is an easy game for you. Are you ready for a less rapid result? Can you deal with the tedious work that Mercury is recommending?

Partnership / Love:

The Sun and Mars in Leo, along with Jupiter in Libra, describe a relationship life that celebrates itself in public. Can someone look behind the scenes? Actually, how is Venus in Cancer doing, which would most prefer to express its emotions in a
protected environment? Is Venus forced to play the game in public? Who is playing the role of Venus? Does someone feel affected? It must be someone with a childlike innocence.

This week begins with a Taurus Moon so that you are offered a chance to get in touch with yourself. What does your body need? How can you do something good for yourself that is also healthy? Mercury in Virgo sleuths out health issues that you had
forgotten about. The solar eclipse next Monday has something to do with the Mercury/Virgo themes, even if it occurs at the end of Leo. The sign of Leo was very emphasized recently, during which Mars continuously demanded new things. Give and take are
out of sync. It is possible that Jupiter in Libra desired personally pleasant things too much and painted a far too bright and colorful picture of the world. It is time to make a correction and to return to a healthy medium. No one likes to relinquish
things. If you do it voluntarily, it can even be a pleasure (Venus-Pluto).

Partnership / Love:

Venus is now in opposition to Pluto. That can mean that fears arise where you had not expected them. Something that was repressed can become palpable. Issues of self worth hang in the air, coupled with questions like: “Who am I actually?” “What do I
need? “What can I give myself and do not have to expect from my partner?” “Am I a satisfied person without a partner?” It should be possible to be satisfied without a partner.

Mercury, ruler of Gemini and Virgo, is now retrograde. It is in Virgo and will make up for something there. For the time being it is about finding out what has actually been neglected because the other constellations have recently demanded so much of
seeming (?) importance and brought something else into blossom that has completely fallen out of your field of vision. Mercury in Virgo urges adherence to the truth, the rules of engagement and natural laws, as well as paying attention to your health.
If there have been excesses, these have produced an imbalance that needs to be corrected. Jupiter in Libra will be helpful as soon as insight has been gleaned. Mercury in Virgo searches for this insight with us.

Partnership / Love:

After playing the dream couple long enough, it is time to take a closer look. Venus opposes Pluto and is compelled to look at its shadow side and persevere. That does not mean that you fall from a perfect world into a situation of unhappiness, even if
it can feel like that for a moment. It is about a correction, a recovery. Was the ideal that you had just imagined perhaps exaggerated?

Venus in Cancer is now forming tense aspects with Pluto and Jupiter. You have already sensed, or were warned, that something must immediately be cleared up, which up to this point had looked like a major win or success. You do not have to reverse
everything or question success as such. But you certainly have to rework and work up what has been overlooked or even consciously shoved to the side. This can diminish the profit, but there will still be a profit left. If you defer the labor of
reworking and recalculating into the future now, you are not doing yourself any favors. We are heading towards a Solar Eclipse (next Monday). When the Moon moves in front of the Sun, feelings and people become more important than material or social
success.

Partnership / Love:

Venus under tension indicates a dilemma. Venus-Pluto means deep spiritual connection (the Beauty and the Beast). Venus-Jupiter describes a particular relationship that corresponds to established clichés of success (the Princess and her Hero).
Venus-Pluto is also dependence, while Venus-Jupiter stands for the greatest possible freedom. It is now your task to bring these extremes together under one roof, to see the beauty in the beast, to find comfort despite the requirement for freedom,
modesty in wealth, contentment in humility.

Mercury in Virgo has reached a standstill and now appears to be moving backwards as seen from the earth. With that the pace should be markedly curbed, even if Mars in Leo works towards lofty goals with enthusiasm. At the beginning of the week, the
Taurus Moon makes us feel that we can no longer advance as quickly. However it gives us a sense of reality that has become necessary, and Mercury promotes this emphatically. In addition, Venus in tension with Pluto and Jupiter describes a struggle
with requirements and their feasibility, that is, their true costs. Everything that was sugarcoated has to be looked at more closely. Questions of cost push to the foreground. Have you taken on too much? Can you find a solution that does not cause any
damage? You are further oriented toward success, enterprising and pioneering.

Partnership / Love:

Venus in tension with Pluto and Jupiter draws your attention to issues of love. Have you overlooked something, not taken something seriously? You will have to deal with the issue that is imposed on you now. For this it will be necessary to review
encounters and words. Details become important. If you take this task on, love can be as awesome as you have wanted and imagined it to be.

The constellations have recently promised a lot of success. Generous and prestigious plans were created. Now the moment has come to go over the books to in order to be able to make a necessary correction. For that you need clarity that you already
wanted for last week. As a Virgo you are exactly the right person who should be taking care of the details. You can assume that something was overlooked or consciously shoved to the side. Find out what it is, become a tracker! Venus in tension with
Pluto and Jupiter needs your contribution in order to be able to balance an imbalance. If people hear you groaning often this week it is a sign that you have done your work and are coming across all kinds of inconsistencies.

Partnership / Love:

Venus in tension with Pluto and Jupiter points to a struggle in your relationship life. If you would like to know where a problem is, you have to ask your partner. At least give them time to find words. They first have to get clear where the problem
actually lies. A great deal has already been swept under the rug because an “ideal” image of your relationship has been adhered to so tightly.

Mercury has gone retrograde. It is certainly not guilty if something does not currently feel good. Venus is in a tense relationship with Pluto and Jupiter, but also these planets are not guilty, rather they simply indicate that by now you feel that
something cannot be right. Jupiter in Libra will not want to accept it, but it has to listen to Venus whether it wants to or not. If you take everything seriously – everyone around you, your own feelings and thoughts, and the signals your body is
sending you – you cannot actually do anything wrong. If something goes belly up, it is due to unreasonableness or arrogance, to holding onto illusions and daydreams, to the beautiful surface and ideal images that one has of oneself (Jupiter in Libra
in tension with Pluto, Sun and Mars in Leo, Saturn in Sagittarius).

Partnership / Love:

Mercury may now begin to adapt the image you have of yourself and your relationship or your partner to reality. It looks as though you have to say goodbye to a dream in order to be able to arrive in reality. Even when we make our dreams come true they
have to adapt to reality. If you are aware of that, the current constellations cannot affect you.

Are you on the winning side? The Sun and Mars in Leo point towards visible successes. How important is success to you? Venus in tension with Pluto and Jupiter indicates an uncertainty in your values: you oscillate between overestimating (revaluation)
and underestimating (depreciation). At the same time these constellations can generate an immeasurable wealth through a joint act of power: a wealth of insight and wisdom (Jupiter), a wealth of humanity (Jupiter, Venus) and a sense of responsibility
(Pluto in Capricorn), a wealth of peacemaking actions (Jupiter, Venus), a wealth of good familial connections (Venus, Pluto), but also of friends and other good contacts (Venus, Jupiter). If all of this means wealth to you, then in a material sense
more than enough is available to you, or respectively, left over.

Partnership / Love:

Venus indicates an emergency situation now, when it is pressured by Pluto and Jupiter at the same time. There are too many claims and demands present right now. Maybe also too many notions that you have made of love. In a board game, in a case like
this you would either win or lose, and then the game would end. If you would like to keep playing, there can neither be winners nor losers.

The Taurus Moon and newly retrograde Mercury in Virgo ameliorate your perception of reality at the beginning of the week. Venus, in tension with Jupiter and Pluto, contributes to that as well because it must also suffer under the given circumstances.
Whatever was not clear last week can become clear now. The entire thing looks like something repressed that makes itself known so that you can no longer ignore it. It could also be a person or a group of people who make themselves felt. Have you
forgotten anyone or not paid enough attention to them? Not valued them enough? The planets in the fire element have recently drawn your entire attention to them through brisk activity, and were supported by Jupiter in Libra. Has Jupiter disregarded
the Libran ideals of justice? Bias or partiality have emerged.

Partnership / Love:

Suddenly feelings and needs are so strong that you can no longer suppress them. What happened? What has made this change possible? Is the new situation unpleasant? Or embarrassing? Or are you also a little relieved? Contradictory feelings encounter
each other and can kind of confuse you. We are heading toward a Leo Solar Eclipse and are now supplying the subjects that we will have to chew on a bit longer.

Venus in Cancer opposing Capricorn draws your attention to something or someone. Have you overlooked something or someone? Is there something to correct or improve? The wave of success that Jupiter and the emphasized sign of Leo could have brought
your way has a shadow side that you will now look at. There is a lot of legwork you have to do. You must take your time and cannot make any further high-flying plans. You have reached a high point and gone past it. That does not mean that things go
downhill from here, it does however mean that you have to fulfill promises and claims if you would like to continue to be satisfied with yourself. Next Monday is a Solar Eclipse in Leo; the Moon moves in front of the Sun and shows that it is more
about people and less about personal success.

Partnership / Love:

Both the Lunar and the Solar Eclipse have to do with your relationship life. You have embarked on something and will be confronted with the consequences. The Leo New Moon, which we are heading towards (Solar Eclipse), is conjoined Mars. It is the
second New Moon like this, which is very rare. You experience a second chance and this time will definitely do something differently than a month ago.

Interpersonal relationships are a challenge. Sun and Mars in Leo have been opposed to the sign of Aquarius for three weeks and this Sunday there is a second Leo New Moon conjoined Mars. Do you still know what occupied you on 23/24 July? The topic has
not yet been finalized. Could it be that you have to learn how to argue? Do you have to find a position or better inform yourself? Retrograde Mercury offers to go on the search for an explanation. Maybe someone close to you can be of help. Venus in
tension with Pluto and Jupiter announce relationship issues that you simply cannot ignore. You notice it when you become angry. When that happens can you say why you are angry? Find out!

Partnership / Love:

You have most definitely gotten closer. Are things going according to your desires or is your partner determining the circumstances and manner of convergence? Or is it the other way around and you are the boss in the relationship? It cannot be the
case that one partner constantly makes decisions for the other. Jupiter in Libra desires equilibrium and is pressured by Pluto in Capricorn to take this task really seriously.

Do you have difficulty asserting yourself? That would be one explanation why there are two New Moons in Leo connected with Mars. It would also mean that you cannot yet really profit from the promising constellations we had in the last two weeks. If
this applies to you, the second New Moon (Leo Solar Eclipse) this coming Monday is your second chance to make yourself noticeable to those around you and bring your wishes to life. You will rarely assert yourself using your elbows, rather with a very
special charm, maybe even with a bit of theatrical talent. Take advantage of your possibilities! Go your entirely own way in order to reach your goals. But if you recently were able to prevail and realize important projects, you have to – like other
people as well – go over the books again and see where something needs improvement.

Partnership / Love:

Misunderstandings have to be cleared up. The Taurus Moon helps you have a realistic perspective at the beginning of the week; the Gemini Moon helps you to understand your partner’s situation; the Cancer Moon will enliven your feelings (extremely
pleasant, but also negative ones, nothing lukewarm); and the Leo Moon prepares you on Sunday for the New Moon, which brings your relationship life into a new dynamic.